Top of the line tech demo from 8 years ago: youtube.com
Top of the line tech demo today: youtube.com
Yeah, I'm thinking we're hitting the point where real life and in-game graphics are going to be indistinguishable soon.
B-but, graphics technology h-h-has been s-stagnant!
Jordan Morales
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Carter Howard
>Yeah, I'm thinking we're hitting the point where real life and in-game graphics are going to be indistinguishable soon.
People have been saying that since the Sega Saturn launched.
Charles Rodriguez
Yeah, but shit like this has been rednering in real time since last year or earlier.
Within 5 years we are going to have photorealism generated on the fly. I could see CGI movies being made entirely in game engines since it would be a lot cheaper and time efficient without costing on visual quality.
Xavier Hill
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Nolan Bailey
I can't imagine movie studios voluntarily switching to worse renderers
Ryder Young
yeah good luck simulating fluids fabrics smoke fire flesh and all that other shit as well as rendering hundreds of millions of polygons and tons of 8-16k textures all in realtime while also having to fucking ray/path-trace the lighting get real retard
Juan Bailey
Juan Harris
but when will we get another good game?
Justin Hughes
>not showing any human faces/bodies
>bunch of geometric shapes everywhere
But the lighting is amazing.
Aiden Miller
Asking the real questions.